The story of little known about 77 million twins in the world

The world currently has about 77 million twins. According to statistics, in the last 50 years the rate of twins, triplets . doubled compared to the previous.

Scientists say twins are inherited through the mother from generation to generation. However, a number of other factors also contributed to the increase in the proportion of twins such as tall women giving birth after 35 years of age, or women living in polluted areas.

In the small city of Igbo-Ora (Nigeria) every year there are about 50 twins or triplets.

The reason is that the vegetables in this region contain a substance similar to the estrogen hormone in women, stimulating the activity of gonadotropin hormone (sex enhancer) and accelerating the maturation process of egg cells. .

Here couples without twins are despised, so they try to give birth until twins are new.

In addition to appearance, twins often have more similarities than other siblings.

American psychologist Tomas Buchard, when studying 350 twins, found an interesting case: After 1 month of birth, two twins Jim Springer and Jim Luise were separated.

They met again after 40 years and discovered that the first wife of two people named Linda, the second wife were both named Betty, the first children of both of them were named Jame, both used ' Chevrolet ' brand cars. color, love carpentry profession and smoke the same type of cigar.

The first conjoined twins were first recorded as brothers Chang and Eng, born on May 11, 1811 in Thailand, then called Xiem (Siam) should start here conjoined twins each other is called 'Siam twins '.

Chang and Eng stick together in the chest area. People see this as an ominous one, no one dares to approach the two of them, even someone even orders to kill them. Thanks to the mother's exhaustedness, the two of them escaped death.

At 11 years old Chang and Eng were sold to Robert Hunter, a British businessman. He brought the two children to the United States and made them famous through touring around the United States and Europe.

At the age of 18, Chang and Eng abandoned the stage, bought tobacco plantations, and worked as a family economy. At 32 years old, Chang and Eng married their sisters, Adelaida and Sara, who were English as wives. Chang took Adelaida and Eng took Sara's sister.

They built two identical houses, alternating every 3 days with a girl. Adelaida gave birth to 7 children, Sara was born 9. All of their children are completely healthy. Two brothers died at the age of 63.

Conjoined twins are caused by errors in the division of egg cells. Conjoined twin probability is 1 / 100,000, in which the probability of girls being born is three times higher than boys.

Ancient times twins are covered in mystical veil . Many people believe that they have supernatural abilities such as controlling the weather, not being killed in combat, immune to snake venom .

In Central Africa, parents of twins are considered to be able to influence crops well, gain strength and energy for the land. In many tribes, the mother of the twins has to eat with two hands to make the two children grow up equally well.

And the old Japanese said that twins were the result of adultery of the unfortunate mother and woman who was treated very badly. Many places claim that in twins, one is a sign of good, the other represents evil and one of two children is removed from the tribe.

Scientists have statistics: the probability of twins is 1/85, the triplets are 1 / 7,000, the life is 1 / 680,000. Blacks have the highest rate of twins (1/100), Chinese and Japanese have the lowest rate (1/500).

Record of twins

lFedor Vasilev, a Russian farmer living in the late 18th century, has 97 children. His first wife was born 27 times, of which four times gave birth, 7 gave birth to three and 16 times to twins. His second wife, 2 births and 6 twins.

In 1978, Sudanese Bishara Muhamed al Shaef had four wives and in one night all four wives gave him eight sons.

l Peggy, the American born in 84 days, the first child was born November 11, 1995, while the second was born on February 2, 1996.

l The largest twins - 12.5kg (total), the daughter of Mrs. Haskin American born in 1924.

l The smallest twins - Sara (400g) and Jone Morrisons (430g) were born in Canada in 1994.

l The world's first in-vitro fertilized twins Stiven and Amanda, born in 1981 in Australia.

l Twins Iris Jone and Aro Campbel (born 1914) met after 75 years of separation.

l Celebrities who give birth to twins: Great writer William Shakespeare, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, film actors Robert de Niro, Mel Gibson, Chuck Norris, Julia Robert, singer Julio Iglesias .

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